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Show Pe 8 The Newspaper lne Newspaper easan O By Rick Brough There really won't be a Park City Mafia running the White House; it just seems that way. Ronald Reagan's director of travel and scheduling, sche-duling, Dick Andrews, is a native, and the veteran advanceman has drawn a small band of fellow Park-ites Park-ites into the Reagan campaign, cam-paign, especially for the ex-governor's visit to Salt Lake City two weeks aeo. Andrews' Park Meadows neighbor, Gene Moser, was an aide and unofficial photographer photo-grapher for the visit. (The official photographer, Brad Olch, also is a Parkite.) Moser's secretary, Caryle Irvine, helped to handle the traveling VIPs, and her daughter, Paige, stood in the reception line Friday the 27th at the Salt Lake Airport to shake the hand of (they hope) the 40th president. Park City's finest also were present; Rob Berry, who's handled Reagan rallies before, be-fore, helped to pave a smooth path from the airport to the church office building, and from the Hotel Utah to the party convention at the Salt Palace. Park City officer Lloyd Evans and Dave Novelle were on hand, plus there were enthusiastic Reagan Rea-gan supporters like La Verne Moser and Ve Dawson. (Yes, I know Ve's name looks like it was cut off at the knees, but she says correcting people on that spelling is easier than correcting them on her full name.). With all these locals, The Newspaper could fit right in. And it was a good thing, too. In our usual seat-of-the-pants fashion, we somehow had failed to obtain press R At the Resort AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE . 2 bedroom, 2 bath elegant Victorian style residences located in the Historic Main Street area. FOR INFORMATION CALL R.S.V.P. 649-6655 or HAL TAYLOR 649-8181 a development of The MacQuoid Thursday. July 10, 1980 Thursday, July iu, ivbu Greets SLC Fans And credentials, but on Saturday, convention morn, at 7 a.m., the call came from Gene Moser: "We can get you a staff pass if you get down here to the Hotel Utah at 8 a.m." Delightful. I always enjoy driving down Parley's Summit Sum-mit at break-neck speed. Andrews was better prepared pre-pared than we were. He has to be. In the 11 months he's been working on the Reagan campaign, he's spent 72 percent of his time on the road and been through 375 plane take-offs. As an advance ad-vance man for six years with President Nixon and Vice-President Vice-President Agnew, he clocked about 776,000 miles through China, Russia and Vietnam, among others. And he traveled with Nixon on that most painful trip of his career the journey on Resignation Day from the White House to San Cle-mente. Cle-mente. "Nixon was a very sick, exhausted man," Andrews An-drews remembered, on that "pretty moving, very tough" day in history. He recalled being mostly in motion that day, closing up the office, preparing for the transition, and heading for Andrews Air Force Base in advance of Nixon's helicopter, in readiness readi-ness for the 4'2-hour plane flight to California. "It was very quiet on the flight," Andrews said. "People "Peo-ple slept, read. Nixon came back and thanked everybody, every-body, discussed a little baseball." base-ball." The president was a sports nut, and Andrews said the closest he came to a friendly conversation with him was when the Chief Executive drew his aides into the Rose Garden for a Restaurant Seafood Beef Oyster Bar Set Sail For Park City's Finest Restaurant SERVING DINNER NIGHTLY FROM 6:00 Company. F ' UTAH 1 ' !?( P I'if 111 Iff COUNTRYW casual B.S. session on current cur-rent doings in the dugout. "He was one of the finest presidents we had in foreign policy," said Andrews. "But he was not a very social person." In 1968, Andrews was an independent San Francisco broker dealing in tax shelters shel-ters and commodities (a profession he still pursues) when a pro-Nixon client brought him into the campaign. cam-paign. He started out driving in the motorcade, became one of Nixon's five lead advancemen, and followed him to the White House. He served at both inaugurals, inau-gurals, traveled widely, and was even executive vice-president of the U.S. Ski Team. Andrew's fondest memories, however, concerned the 649-7778 00 three years he was in charge of lighting the White House Christmas tree. "What I remember," he said, "are the 10-15,000 people standing on the lawn, and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir singing they were there one year the poinsettias in the White House." After Andrews worked at San Clemente for six months during the transition of power, it looked like the political life was behind him. Nearly a year ago, he was asked to help out on the Reagan campaign for "two or three weeks" metric weeks, apparently, since Andrews is presently dealing with the minimal sleep and maximal chaos of the national na-tional GOP convention in Detroit. Andrews works a 20-hour day, riding herd during the primaries on about 60 members mem-bers of the national press (which will expand to about 150-180 for the national campaign.) The presidential candidate rides in a 727 with the secret service and major media members, while the remnants of the press hop i-) v M.--.: ; , 'fi-i if j . j f ., , J ' ! 1 .' ... 'ifLtAt . .. " .. Miss Summit Co. Pageant To Be Held at Park Park City will be the site of the 1980 Miss Summit County Pageant on August 9th, Pageant Director Mike Pelton and Assistant Director Direc-tor Billie Koleman announced announ-ced last week. Winner of the county pageant will enter the Utah State Pageant held to select Miss Utah, who will compete for the crown of Miss America in the national competition at Atlantic City, Mils ? ' "fffl 1 f -d- the Eager Troops from Park Uty " .u - .,.. ,h,.. all-the-stops-out version of aboard the two "zoo planes." The zoo plane that Hunter Thompson rode in "Where the Buffalo Roam" looked like a flying Animal House, but Andrews wouldn't say things get that wild. "Every pressman has his own idiosyncrasieswears idio-syncrasieswears his funny hats," Adrews admits. The best cure for jet lag is lots of exercise, Andrews said. "Every member of the governor's staff works out every day." The job is a "statistical nightmare"' he said, and it should have been no surprise that, upon my arrival at Hotel Utah, he gave me my staff pin and quickly remanded re-manded me to Gene Moser's custody. We were escorted into the press bus, which formed the caboose in Reagan's Rea-gan's motorcade to the Salt Palace. (They drove the candidate past the local graffiti wall "Send the criminal Shah and Kissinger back to Iran," etc. and I doubt that was intentional, but it's a nice touch. It should be a tradition like the courtesy visit to President Ximball.) New Jersey. This Miss Summit County Pageant provides a valuable contribution to the community com-munity and to the young ladies who will enter the competition. If focuses attention at-tention on the high calibre of young ladies who are residents of Summit County. It also provides an opportunity oppor-tunity for those who compete to gain added poise through t'V 1 'C I . .... -r . The bus was donated by Lewis Brothers, one of those innumerable freebies that comes a candidate's way. Park City Transportation lent a couple of airport limos to transport a group of Texas Reagan-backers to Park City for dinner at Adolph's Restaurant. Res-taurant. (With the onset of the Southwest's heat wave, Gene Moser said, "They enjoyed en-joyed being in cool weather.") wea-ther.") Park City police lieutenant Rob Berry chauffeured the group up the canyon just one of the many nuts-and-bolts tasks that fell to him as a veteran security man on the campaign, brought in by Andrews. He worked rallies for the Massachusetts and Iowa primaries. Anyone care for this laundry laun-dry list? Berry had to help set up a command post at the Hotel Utah, arrange the proper hotel accommodations, and make sure those that Reagan would meet (the First Presidency) Presi-dency) had agreed on and understood the agenda. To ensure that motorcades motor-cades would run smoothly. Photo by : Gene Moser High public appearances and par- maturity through ticipation in a community program such as the Miss Summit County Pageant. Miss Summit County and finalists will preside over county events, reign at the Summit County Fair, act as representatives from the county and greet visiting dignitaries. Five prominent judges from varied fields of interest will serve on a panel to select the new Miss Summit County. Coun-ty. Contestants will be judged on a point basis in the areas of Private Interview, Evening Gown, Swimsuit and Talent divisions. The pageant is not a bathing beauty contest, rather it is a national organization which has awarded more scholarships scholar-ships to young women than any other organization in the world. It provides an opportunity oppor-tunity for scholarships which will aid in obtaining an education at a college of the winners' choice. The Miss Summit County Pageant at the Park City High School will be a community com-munity and a county endeavor en-deavor to insure its success in selecting a young lady to represent the county in the Miss Utah, and possibly the Miss" America Pageant. Communities and organizations organiza-tions Will be interested in sponsoring contestants, attending the pageant events and supporting financially, ting financially. Application forms are available at the Chamber of Commerce. Here She Is Miss Summit County ! the advance team conducted conduct-ed several walk-throughs. Berry said security presented present-ed few problems. "Salt Lake is a very pro-Republican town." There were a couple of bomb threats, according to Gene Moser. "Nothing big," he said. "The Secret Service hasn't released any details. They don't want to stimulate those kinds of things." More chauffeur work, driving local staff members from the Salt Lake Airport and back. Providing the proper stage setting at the convention conven-tion for TV. Cameras should be shooting at the platform at a 45 percent angle. You can't have floodlights shining shin-ing on a white backdrop. Also, nix to doorways or wires showing in the shot. Berry's principal responsibility respon-sibility was Nancy Reagan, as he arranged and coordinated coordi-nated her interviews with such local luminaries as KSL's Shelley Thomas and KALL's Alexis Fernandez. While Mrs. Reagan met the press at the Hotel Utah between 9 and 10 a.m., the ex-governor opened a second front by dining at the Inflation-Fighters Breakfast. Break-fast. (Why are candidates required to sit on a dais casually eating Rice Krisp-ies Krisp-ies while hundreds of people stare at them?) By the time Reagan was ready to make his 10:30 keynote speech to the convention, con-vention, Berry was shuttling the Osmond family (five members, including Donny, wife Debra, and Marie) into the Salt Palace to meet the Reagans. They had asked the previous day to endorse Reagan, Moser said, and appeared as high-class window win-dow dressing, not singing a note or opening their mouths. The crowd in general wasn't so docile. The Reagans Rea-gans set up a huge roar as they entered, preceded by a marching band playing an Ads Running For City Manager A city manager in Park City plays -an integral .part jp , the operations of the govern-' ment. He oversees the daily workings of all city departments depart-ments and their supervisors and staffs, and makes decisions as his authority allows, passing decisions onto on-to the City Council as law demands. Since the resignation of City Manager Wayne Matthews Mat-thews June 4, his responsibilities respon-sibilities have been taken over by the city finance director and Mayor Jack Green, with the City Coun-cilmen Coun-cilmen taking on extra duties to help alleviate the work load. Mayor Green reported this week that advertisements ad-vertisements have been placed in trade publications, such as the American Society of Public Administration Ad-ministration and the Utah City Manager's Association, as well as in the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle and the Salt Lake Tribune. The ad notes that Park City is a resort community Two Way treet Do you have a question relating to life in Park City? The Newspaper can help you find an answer. Drop a signed note to The Newspaper at 419 Main Street, or call at 649-9014. I think the Recycling Center near the old Mt. Air Market is a great idea, and I use it often to unload my old newspapers and aluminum cans. But right now, the bins are overflowing, and I'm afraid it might discourage people from using the center. cen-ter. When is it going to be emptied to make room for more? L. Mars, P.C. Frequenters of the Recylcing Center won't have to kick the can to get inside much longer. Rick Jentzsch at City Hall said shop crews soon will be emptying the bins, which now are brimming with about six weeks' worth of cans and newspapers. The goods will be taken to a newspaper recycling center and Reynolds Aluminum in Salt Lake City, where they will be weighed out. According to Marianne Cone, who originated the idea and handpainted the center's sign free of charge, a ton of newspapers brings about $20 and a pound of cans cashes in at 27 cents. Not a big money venture, but the recycling revenues eventually will defray the cost of the $3,500 building, which was designed, also as a freebie, by Steve Deckert of Alliance Engineering. More importantly, Ms. Cone pointed out that about two to four percent of the original energy used to produce aluminum is used to recycle it, and about 90 percent of the bauxite ore used to produce aluminum is imported. As for newspapers, three stacks 12 inches high will save one tree. To help get citizens in the can-it mood, Ms. Cone said volunteers volun-teers have begun a door-to-door campaign to drop off flyers explaining how to identify aluminum cans, and where to take newspapers and cans. She noted that any merchants who are interested can get a sticker which says "aluminum only" to place on garbage cans in their businesses to encourage separating them from other refuse. The Recycling Center will help keep Park City clean, and also will give the city a pay-back that then could be used for other litter control projects. Use the Recycling Center you 'can' do it! "Battle Hymn of the Republic," Repub-lic," and were showered by balloons. Reagan's speech gave them what they wanted, want-ed, as he attacked Carter's inflation policy and defense posture, enlisted himself in the Sagebrush Rebellion-as if we didn't know and assailed federal interference in education. The crowd was friendly, and even forgave their man when he called for a "Democratic "Demo-cratic congress." Reagan critics claim such bloopers are frequent they hint of oncoming senility. But Rob Berry said, "I would say that (kind of mistake) is very unusual." The governor's ' Parkite supporters say Reagan Rea-gan has a tough schedule; he hits as many as seven and eight cities a day. Reagan's people believe it's his year. Rob Berry said he has never encountered a crowd hostile to Reagan, not even in Boston. "The blue-collar blue-collar Democrats turned out for him." The upcoming convention is slated for Detroit the kind of northern industrial country coun-try you wouldn't call Republican. Repub-lican. But Dick Andrews told us one of Reagan's biggest big-gest fundraisers attracting 350,000 people was held there. And Michigan Gov. William Milliken, he said, is a staunch supporter. For the future, Andrews said he hoped someone on the GOP ticket possibly Reagan's vice-presidential candidate would put in an appearance at the Park City Arts Festival. But Andrews presently is occupied with the national convention. Talking to The Newspaper from Detroit, Andrews An-drews said the city's strike has not yet presented a problem. "We don't even know it's there," he said. Andrews said he's had about one hour's sleep over the last three or four days. "We're running on adrenalin!" adrena-lin!" All the way to the White House? 30 miles east of Salt Lake ?Clty ; with a 'population of 4,000 whose services are provided by 70 city employees. em-ployees. The applicant requires a BA in business administration, public administration ad-ministration or a related field and needs four years of "progressively responsible work" as a manager or assistant, although experience ex-perience can be substituted for education. Required skills included administration, adminis-tration, planning, controlling mnicipal programs, knowledge know-ledge of principles and practices prac-tices of local government ad-local ad-local government administration, ad-ministration, and knowledge of the economic, geographic and demographic features of community development. The advertised salary, depending on the qualifications, qualifica-tions, is in the mid to upper twenties. Mayor Green said to date, 73 applications have been received, and he said a decision on the new city manager for Park City will hopefully be determined before the end of July. |